The prosecution had been seeking a jail term of five and a half years.
By Federico Fuentes, Green Left
A Moscow military court — which was convened in the Supreme Court of northwestern Russia’s republic of Komi — ordered the release of socialist and anti-war activist Boris Kagarlitsky on December 12.
Kagarlitsky had been in custody since being detained in July on charges of “justifying terrorism”, over comments he made in a since-deleted YouTube video and on his Telegram channel in October 2022 regarding the bombing of the Crimea Bridge.
After a speedy trial that lasted just two days, the court found Kagarlitsky guilty but only required him to pay a fine of ₽600,000 (about US$6600). The former editor of Rabkor (Worker Correspondent), an online leftist media platform, has also been banned from editing any media outlet or webpage for two years.
The prosecution had been seeking a jail term of five and a half years.
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